Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was a U.S. senator from Idaho from 1957 to 1981, the state's longest-serving Democratic senator. He was a prominent liberal voice on foreign policy and environmental protection.
In 1975 Church chaired the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (the Church Committee), which investigated intelligence agency abuses. He sought the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, won several primaries, and later practiced international law until his death in 1984.
Born July 25, 1750. Died October 25, 1806 at age 56.
Henry Knox (1750–1806) was a Revolutionary War general, bookseller, and the nation’s first Secretary of War (1789–1794); he is the namesake of Fort Knox.
Robert Zoellick (born 1953) is an American lawyer who served as U.S. Trade Representative (2001–2005), Deputy Secretary of State (2005–2006), and World Bank president.
Frances Arnold (born 1956) is a chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate (2018) known for pioneering directed evolution; she is a Caltech professor and served on PCAST.
Born July 25, 1941. Died August 28, 1955 at age 14.
Emmett Till, born on this day in 1941, was a 14-year-old African American whose 1955 lynching galvanized national attention to racial violence and the civil rights movement.
Born July 25, 1915. Died August 12, 1944 at age 29.
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915–1944) was a U.S. naval aviator killed in Operation Aphrodite; posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, his death shifted his father's ambitions to John.
Jack Thompson (born 1951) is an activist and disbarred attorney known for campaigning against violent and sexually explicit video games; he was permanently disbarred in 2008.
